Head of Unit, Gender and Development

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OECD Development Centre (DEV)

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Programme/ Project design & management
  • Job type: Job
  • Humanitarian or Development: Development
  • Experience level: 5-10 years
  • Organisation type: Inter-governmental
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: International contract
  • Remuneration: €10,640.30 EUR / monthly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 13/08/2024
  • Location: France
Generic (e.g. 'gender focal point' role Gender equality and Social inclusion (GESI)
Company Description
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is a global economic forum working with 38 member countries and more than 100 emerging and developing economies to make better policies for better lives

Main Responsibilities
Management and Leadership
  • Develop and implement a strategic plan for the Gender and Development Unit in alignment with DEV’s Programme of Work and Budget, under the overall direction of the Head of Division.
  • Lead, motivate, and manage a diverse team to ensure the delivery of high-quality, timely, and relevant outputs. This includes conducting regular performance evaluations, setting clear expectations, and providing feedback for team development.
  • Manage the budget for the Gender and Development Unit, ensuring efficient resource allocation and financial responsibility.

Supervision of Research and Thematic Analysis
  • Develop a comprehensive research strategy focusing on gendered social norms, including masculinities, and their links with women’s empowerment and gender equality, underpinned by the Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI).
  • Oversee the design and implementation of research projects, ensuring they are supported by sound policy analysis and robust evidence. Lead the policy analysis of research findings, providing actionable insights and recommendations for member countries and beyond, as well as for non-state actors.
  • Supervise the drafting and preparation of the Unit’s written outputs in the form of policy documents and publications for different audiences.

Liaison, Outreach and Representation
  • Cultivate and maintain relationships with member countries, external stakeholders, experts, and donors working on gender and development.
  • Represent the Unit in various forums, conferences and working groups disseminating the work of Unit and fostering synergies with external partners.
  • Ensure adequate internal and external visibility of the Unit’s current work and significant achievements.
  • Develop and implement a comprehensive fundraising strategy to secure financial resources for the Unit’s work.

Qualifications
  • An advanced university degree in a relevant field, such as economics, international relations, social, public policy or political sciences, and development.
  • Minimum eight to ten years’ experience working in policy analysis of gender and development issues and experience of dealing with the political economy of reform and/or implementation challenges in developing countries.
  • Demonstrated capacity to work strategically and creatively, strong conceptual and analytical capabilities.
  • Strong political sense and effective diplomatic skills with the ability to achieve consensus and interact effectively with multiple high-level stakeholders and demonstrated track record of policy dialogues with government officials.
  • Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex issues and analysis in a fashion understandable to experts, policy makers and lay audiences alike.
  • Excellent leadership skills with the capacity to manage and resolve conflicts, ability to plan, co-ordinate and supervise complex and large projects and to deliver them to schedule and budget.
  • Ability to build teams and motivate staff in a multicultural environment. Commitment to equal opportunity and diversity.
  • Fluency in one of the two OECD official languages (English and French) and knowledge of the other, with a commitment to reach a good working level.

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